The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan

Scult, Mel.

The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan [Recurso electrónico] / Mel Scult. - Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2014 - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - The modern Jewish experience . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Excommunications: Kaplan and Spinoza -- Self-reliance: Kaplan and Emerson -- Nationalism and righteousness: Ahad ha-Am and Matthew Arnold -- Universalism and pragmatism: Felix Adler, William James, and John Dewey -- Kaplan and peoplehood: Judaism as a civilization and Zionism -- Kaplan and his God: an ambivalent relationship -- Kaplan's theology: beyond supernaturalism -- Salvation: the goal of religion -- Salvation embodied: the vehicle of mitzvot -- Mordecai the pious: Kaplan and Heschel -- The law: halakhah and ethics -- Kaplan and the problem of evil: cutting the gordian knot -- Appendix: "Thirteen wants" of Mordecai Kaplan reconstructed.

Libro Electrónico

9780253010889




Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem, 1881-1983.


Reconstructionist Judaism.


Electronic books.

BM755.K289 / S395 2013

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